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Lawrence Journal World

Location

Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

Date

Oct 20, 1954

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Big Three Agree on Plans to End West German Occupation

Paris reports the Big Three and West Germany reached a basis for ending Allied occupation and restoring nearly full sovereignty. A joint communique said principles are settled and remaining issues to be drafted by Nov 14. The session in Paris at Palace NATO headquarters included Dulles Eden Mendes-France Adenauer and lasted under two hours.

Bonn Republic West Germany United States Britain France Konrad Adenauer Foreign Office Palais de Chaillot U.S John Foster Dulles Anthony Eden Pierre Mendes-France Mendes-France Adenauer Eden Dulles London North Atlantic Treaty Organization Washington Brussels NATO Paris Orly Airfield West Europe NATO Council Western Germany Europe

Plymouth Group Celebrates 100th Birthday of Church

Plymouth Congregational Church marks its centennial with a four day fete beginning tomorrow. Founded Oct 15 1854 on Kaw River hay tent with 10 charter members the church now has 900 members. Former ministers return for dinners talks and a dramatic centennial program. The weekend includes devotions workday for Christ and two Sunday services.

Kaw Vi. St S. Y. Lum Richard Cordley Plymouth Dale Emerson Turner Lawrence Merle Rymph Congregational Christian Churches of Kansas Ray Eusden Boston Mass Alfred D. Grey Lansing Mich Joseph F. King First Church Oberlin C. Fosberg Hughes Colonial Church Prairie Village King Europe Christ

Surprise Showers Across East Kansas Forecast

Topeka reports scattered showers moving into northeast Kansas with additional thundershowers expected tonight and Thursday across the eastern area. Measurable rain was light, Kansas City 0.30 inch, Topeka and Wamego traces. Forecaster Tom Arnold notes partly cloudy west, more clouds east, cooler in west and central Kansas tonight and tomorrow. Overnight lows mid 30s to 50s. highs yesterday ranged 59 in Olathe to 81 in Hutchinson.

Topeka Kansas Weather Bureau Kansas City Wamega Tom Arnold Cental Kansas Olathe Hutchinson Laws Goodland Wichita

Aris L. Green Dies Director for Missouri Public Service

Aris L. Green, 39, a director of the board of the Missouri Public Service Co. in Warrensburg, Mo., died last night at Trinity Lutheran hospital after intermittent illness since last April. Duck season opens tomorrow noon. Everything for hunters at Francis Sporting Goods.

Kansas City Aris L. Green The Missouri Public Service Co Warrensburg Trinity Lutheran Hospital Green Francis Sporting Goods Adv

Petersen Indicted for Handling Defense Secrets

Joseph E. Petersen, 40, a former National Security Agency employee, was indicted on three counts charging unlawful handling of government defense secrets. He pleaded innocent. The charges involve copying intelligence information, disclosure to the Netherlands, and concealing documents. The Netherlands was long unnamed as the recipient. its government says Petersen acted under assumed authority in a wartime cooperation. The arrest date was October 9.

Alexandria Joseph E. Petersen Petersen National Security Agency Netherlands

Hall Says Kansas Labor Laws Need Update

Republican nominee for governor GIRARD Lt. Gov. Fred Hall declares Kansas labor management statutes totally inadequate and outmoded. He cites sections ruled unconstitutional and urges state government to update laws during a noon campaign speech here.

Girard Basi Fred Hall Kansas Hall

Hankins Family Relives Holland Fulbright Year

Prof John Hankins and wife Ruth share highlights from their 2 year abroad in Holland and England as Fulbright lecturers at Leyden University They detail bicycle touring in Holland a luncheon with the queen an audience with the pope and the birth of a granddaughter They and their two sons lived as a Dutch faculty family facing local frugal living and language learning while their daughter Margaret married a Dutch engineer and a granddaughter Lisa was born The piece notes Leyden Founders Day where Queen Juli ana attended a luncheon

Ruth FE Holland England John Hankins Hankins University of Leyden Hanking Prof University of Kansas English Department Lawrence Maine Margaret Arthur van Mourik Netherlands

Campanella Undergoes Hand Surgery Again

New York Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella underwent a four hour operation on his left hand today. It was his second operation in under six months after a May surgery to remove bone chips that caused a four week layoff and reduced batting effectiveness. The latest procedure aimed to release adhesions causing partial paralysis of the ulnar nerve.

New York Roy Campanella Brooklyn Dodger Campanella

British Dock Strike Threatens Food Supply

London reports strike action spreading across major ports with about 39,000 dockers off work including in London Liverpool Birkenhead Hull and Southampton. Churchill cabinet weighs deploying troops to unload ships especially meat eggs and fruit if strikers do not return by Saturday.

London Queen Elizabeth America Southampton Britain Liverpool Birkenhead Hull Churchill Dock Labor Board

Eisenhower Warns No Victory Alternative In War

President Eisenhower told about 7,500 at Trinity College that war offers no clear victory or defeat, only degrees of destruction. He urged American youth to uphold spiritual values as salvation from destruction during a convocation marking the college’s 132nd year. He received an honorary law degree and planned two major non political speeches in New York after returning from Washington.

Washington Eisenhower Barelj White House Denver Connecticut New York GOP New York City America Hartford John Lodge Columbine LaGuardia DuMont Network Astor Hotel NBC CBS New York State Roosevelt Hotel Irving M. Ives Averell Harriman Waldorf-Astoria Clifford P. Case New Jersey Charles R. Howell U.S Alfred E. Smith Gettysburg Conn Trinity College Nixon

Tobacco Industry Launches Giant Research Program

The tobacco industry forms a wide scale scientific plan to study medical effects of smoking. A $500000 fund backs lung cancer studies at 10 medical centers, surveys of smoking habits, emotional patterns, and animal experiments. Critics urge focus on safety. experts say proving harm remains challenging.

Tobacco Industry New York E. Cuyler Hammond American Cancer Society Hammond ACS

Gavilan Saxton Weigh In For Philadelphia Title Fight

Welterweight champion Kid Gavilan and challenger Johnny Saxton weighed in at 145 3/4 and 146 pounds respectively today in Philadelphia Convention Hall for their 15 round world title bout set for tonight.

Philadelphia Kid Gavilan Johnny Saxton Convention Hall

Hospital Bonds Pass in Tight Vote at Lawrence Memorial

The controversial $1 million hospital bond issue was approved by 192 votes as 2,514 ballots were cast with 1,351 yes and 1,139 no. Ward results varied from 306–186 in the Second Ward to 76–151 in the Fifth Ward, reflecting patterns similar to the 1953 water sewer bond election. City will canvass Friday and seek federal aid for hospital expansion.

Lawrence Memorial Hospital Jim Wigglesworth Harold Fisher First Ward Second Ward Fourth Ward Fifth Ward Sixth Ward Fisher

Bond Okay Spurs Officials No Time for Back Patting

City and hospital board spokesmen stressed rapid action after the hospital bond election favored by about eight percent. The plan aims to expand Lawrence Memorial Hospital with up to 40 percent Hill Burton aid, while bills for the 1955 Legislature would validate the election and authorize bonds. If approved, construction could start by June 1955 and take about 18 months. Riley Burcham welcomed the decision. the city seeks to reduce overcrowding with the expansion project.

City and Hospital Board Jim Wigglesworth Hill-Burton Lawrence Wigglesworth Lawrence Memorial Hospital Riley, Burcham

GM Gifts KU Four Equipment Pieces for Engineering School

The University of Kansas School of Engineering and Architecture and the University Extension received four display and testing items from General Motors Chevrolet Division in Kansas City. Dean T. DeWitt Carr accepted three cutaway models used in Motorama shows, plus a Skill-o-Meter for driver training at the Extension safety center. The exhibits included a blue flame engineer model, a power glide automatic transmission, and a power steering unit.

University of Kansas School of Engineering and Architecture University Extension Chevrolet General Motors Corp R. B. Lyman Chevrolet Motor Division Kansas City Dean T. DeWitt Carr School of Engineering and Architecture General Motors Motorama United States Safety Center M. 8 Lawrence Chevrolet K.U Shipman Winter Jr Edward J. McBride E. A. McFarland McFarland

Kiwanis to Honor Boys in Haskell Key Club Meeting

The Kiwanis club at Haskell Institute will honor the Key Club during its weekly luncheon. Russell Mills, Kiwanis president, leads the event paying tribute to 26,000 high school boys in 1,100 clubs for leadership in school and community service.

Kiwanis Club Kiwanis International Haskell Institute Genn F. Brown Russell Mills Kiwanis United States Canada Hawaii

Court Rules Against Woman in Hotel Case

A Topeka federal district court jury ruled against Eleanor Dee Thompson of Boone Iowa in her $61314 suit against Colonial Hotel owner Thomas T. Harvey. Thompson claimed a man broke into her hotel room in September 1952, assaulting and robbing her, and alleged the hotel’s door lock failed and negligent guest protection.

Topeka A Federal District Court Eleanor Dee Thompson Boone Thomas T. Harvey

Weather summary for Kansas with clouds and showers

Partly cloudy weather with considerable eastern cloudiness this afternoon and tonight. Cooler tonight with possible thundershowers, high around 60 to 70 Thursday. Yesterday peaked at 88, low 44. Sunrise 6:36 am, sunset 5:36 pm. Rainfall to 1:20 pm recorded at 0.3 inches. Continuous dates and stray figures noted.

Kansas Hoon Terperat

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